A First Course in Design and Analysis of Experiments

This book by Gary W. Oehlert was first published in 2000 by W. H. Freeman.
As of summer 2010, it has gone out of print. Curiously, I still like this
book and would prefer to continue using it in my teaching; some of my
colleagues feel the same way. And since the copyright has (will soon) reverted
to me, we can do that.

A complete description of the license may be found at the
Creative Commons
website.

Download Book

You may download A First Course in Design and Analysis of Experiments
by clicking here (1.9 MB PDF).

Download Data

The data from
A First Course in Design and Analysis of Experiments
are available in various formats:

Individual data sets can be accessed over the web as
plain text files with labelled columns using a URL like
http://www.stat.umn.edu/~gary/book/fcdae.data/xxxx
The xxx takes the form of exmpl3.2 for example 2 from chapter 3,
ex2.5 for exercise 5 from chapter 2, and pr13.14 for problem 14
from chapter 13. You can access these directly from R via, for example,
read.table("http://www.stat.umn.edu/~gary/book/fcdae.data/exmpl3.2",header=TRUE)

All of the individual text data sets accessible via the web as above
are also available in a single zip archive

Russ Lenth at the University of Iowa has also provided an R package that
include the data sets from the book.oehlert_1.02.tar.gz
Download the package and save the file into a place where R can find it
(e.g., your home directory or the desktop). Start R, set the working
directory to that location (e.g., use setwd(), and then use
install.packages("oehlert_1.02.tar.gz",repos=NULL,type="source")
(The repos=NULL says not to find it online but to look for the
package in the local files; the type="source" tells R the file format.)
Once the package is installed, you can do
library(oehlert)
from within R to load all of the data. At that point, the command
pr17.4
should give you problem 4 from chapter 17.

Note that the data set names, variable names, and variable codings
in oehlert.Rdata and the direct-web-accessible data may not be the same.